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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard:
@skribe@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written this century (2001+), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written this century.

Boost for visibility please.

#Books#SF#Fantasy#21Century

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elegant etesian
@rhapsodos@toot.aquilenet.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@skribe Terra Ignota from @adapalmer

it's a marvel of a book. Ingredients are fighting for utopias, complex political schemes, one of the most interesting societies I have seen depicted. and on top of that, one of the narrator is an unreliable and extremely witty dude.

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Isaac Freeman
@isaacfreeman@cloudisland.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@skribe The book this century that most changed my thinking was Kim Stanley Robinson's _Aurora_.
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Alex, the Hearth Fire
@WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@skribe A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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Adam Greenfield
@adamgreenfield@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@skribe How many people have mentioned “Blindsight” so far?
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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@skribe anything by @naomialderman (The Power especially… her latest book is The Future, which Fediverse people would probably enjoy)
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Aitor Zaindari
@drbillbongo@brettspiel.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@_elena @skribe @naomialderman "The Power" was the first one that came to mind. Such a brilliant book!
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Michael Bacon
@MichaelTBacon@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@skribe The Fifth Season (because you said just one book I won’t include the whole trilogy) by N K Jemison was the best novel in any genre that I’d read in a decade. Absolutely astonishing accomplishment of literature.
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Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
@dartigen@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@skribe Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer. I haven't gotten to reading the rest of Southern Reach, but on its own it's... something.

(While I didn't do it in this order, I'd actually recommend reading it before watching the 2018 adaptation, and maybe regarding the film as more of an 'inspired by' adaptation.

Mostly so the film's imagery doesn't intrude while reading.)

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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@skribe Can't name just one, but I see your first twenty or so replies are missing: "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi, "Blindsight" by Peter Watts, and "The March North" by Graydon Saunders—no list of 21st century SFF greats is complete without all three of these.
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labria
@labria@social.yeschenko.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@cstross heh, came to post the first, can totally second the second, and it seems I need to read the third!
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evilchili
@evilchili@linernotes.club replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@cstross @skribe co-signed the Quantum Thief. The whole trilogy is aces.
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Daniel Carosone
@uep@timeloop.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@cstross @skribe

The first on your list: agreed

The second on your list: was my nomination

The third on your list: need, TIL

(lists weren't allowed, but I think you can take the liberty here)

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doncish
@doncish@norden.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@skribe

That's easy: The Broken Earth series by N. K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season (2015)
The Obelisk Gate (2016)
The Stone Sky (2017)

Absolutely mind-blowing. I'll re-read this throughout my life, it's fantastic.

#SF #scifi#Fantasy#Literature#Books

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